Spiritual Crisis is the World’s Greatest Problem Part 2 – Cultural Sensitivity and Empathy

“Opinion is the lowest from of human knowledge.  It requires no accountability, no understanding.  The Highest form of knowledge … is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world.  It requires profound purpose larger Read more

Flow Theory Part 1 – Overview of why changing our focus and intention can create a new world

“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life” ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The blog today is a bit more esoteric but bear with me on it.  Our focus and mindset is crucial to how anything is perceived and how we feel Read more

Social Media Promotes Polarization of Beliefs – part 3 –Social Media Data is being mined for Nefarious Purposes

As I said in the last post, Audience Analysis is good communications technique for well thought out and well-crafted ‘honest’ messaging.  Now using data sets from social media platforms with negatively fear based invented news and misinformation has turned it Read more

Social Media Promotes Polarization of Beliefs – part 2 – How Your Social Media Data is Used to Change the World

Collecting data about people has long been a primary goal of the advertising industry, e.g. The Madison Avenue crowd.  The more you know about potential customers, the more closely you can match your advertising to their interests and preferences.  This Read more

Social Media Promotes Polarization of Beliefs – part 1 – The Insidious Side of Social Media

“Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t want plastered on a billboard with your face on it”   Erin Bury I just spent three weeks in the Silicon Valley area of California.  I toured the Facebook campus and ran through the Read more

The role of Limiting Beliefs and Empowering Beliefs 5 – Reprogramming our thinking part 2

“You are not responsible for the programming you received in childhood.  But as an adult, you are 100% responsible for fixing it.”  Tiny Buddha.com Laying down new neural pathways is a key to reprogramming our brains (see previous post VISION Read more

The role of Limiting Beliefs and Empowering Beliefs 3 – Faith in ourselves and the humanity around us

The greatest threat to our planet is the [disempowering] belief that someone else will save it.  Earth Guardians I have talked with people about why we seem to have so little faith in our own better angels.  Experiences with greed Read more

Apparent Chaos as the Indicator of a New System Developing 3 – Breaking old habits (Beliefs and Symbolic Beliefs)

When I moved away from being a research biochemist, I found myself exploring and researching about beliefs.  What intrigued me was why they were barriers to environmental changes that I perceived should be a no brainer to make for a Read more

Human Entrainment 2 – Conditioning through Mass Media and Mass Entertainment

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein When we talk of entrainment, dispel notions of brainwashing – this is not a situation in the films like ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ or ‘A Clockwork Orange.’  You always have Read more

Health and the Chemistry of Living 2 – The suppression of homeopathic medicine as an alternative

As a continuation to my last post about the precautionary tale of simply accepting mainstream authority as holders of the scientific gospels, I will explain further how money backed science and medicine came to dominate our lives today.  Many years Read more

Manifesting a New Global Society while keeping our diverse global cultures 6 – Hofstedt’s Cultural Dimensions

When I was still teaching about sustainability, I sometimes used the simulation program Sim City. The first time I used this program was back in the early 1990s.  (SimCity is a city-building and urban planning simulation game.)  What becomes clear Read more

Manifesting a New Global Society while keeping our diverse global cultures 5 – Transitioning to a better future

I have made a big deal about us all needing to be involved as active participants in manifesting a new and better future.  I get a lot of comments from friends and students about what kind of political and economic Read more

Manifesting a New Global Society while keeping our diverse global cultures 3 – Leadership

As an academic, in a university setting, I found myself leading a sustainability degree program and the charge for many sustainability projects and situations that I felt needed change on campus and within the local communities.  I would not say Read more